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Why ‘deaths of despair’ are higher in former coal mining communities

Life expectancy in the UK has risen dramatically since the Industrial Revolution. For more than a century, people lived increasingly long and healthy lives. But around the turn of the millennium, that progress began to slow.

The Conversation · Mar 23

Money can really buy you happiness, especially if you’re a billionaire

Researchers find that a correlation between money and happiness extended to people making at least $500,000 a year

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2024

The cries from Britain’s struggling CEOs are growing louder – how can they survive on a mere £4.4m a year?

There are fears in the City of an exodus of bosses to the US, where they reckon they’ll be paid the big bucks they surely deserve, says the author Stefan Stern

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2024

Americans are too lonely

We are immersed in various forms of psychological misery. Much of what ails our society arises from our poverty of human connections.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 24, 2023

Can Money Buy Happiness? New Research Settles Age-Old Debate

Does more money mean a happier life? Leading Princeton and UPenn researchers revisited the eternal question and reached a surprising conclusion.

Kiplinger · Mar 17, 2023

Rising asset wealth and falling real wages ‘drive inequality in Britain’

Young people no longer able to rely on hard work to improve their living standards as they age, says IFS

The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2022

How much money will actually make you happy?

We can all fantasise about what we need to make ourselves satisfied — and it doesn’t have to be a fortune

Financial Times · Sep 23, 2022

Will Bunch: America’s real college debt: How we failed an entire generation

Ewan Johnson’s college dreams nearly crashed down on him after just four days. The saga had started in the mid-2010s near the end of what by his own admission had been an unambitious time in high school. Then, his dreams were abruptly transformed by an unplanned trip across the Delaware…

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Jul 29, 2022